SPOKANE, Wash. – Fort Hays State Women's Wrestling student-athletes
Ashlynn Goodwin and
Dylen Ritchey turned in All-America performances at the 2025 USMC Women's National Championships and World Team Trials, held April 4-6 by USA Wrestling. Both competed in the U20 Division as Goodwin finished sixth at 62 kg and Ritchey finished eighth at 65 kg.
Goodwin went 4-3 in her bracket, scoring two technical falls and two falls on her path to a sixth-place finish and All-America status. After a pair of wins, Goodwin lost in the quarterfinals, but bounced back for two more wins in a row to reach placement matches. She fell in the consolation semifinal and fifth place matches to wrestlers seeded higher than her in the bracket. Goodwin was seeded eighth in her bracket.
Ritchey produced the most wins of any Tiger wrestler competing at the event, going 6-3 in the tournament. She started the tournament 1-1, but then caught fire in the consolation bracket with five-straight wins to reach the placement matches. Ritchey had four tech fall shutouts, a decision, and a fall for her six wins in the event. She knocked out the No. 2 seed Sydney Perry of North Central College, an All-America performer at the NCWWC Championships this year, to reach the placement matches. After her tremendous run to placement status as an unseeded wrestler, she fell to a pair of seeded wrestlers to finish the tournament, but it was enough to take eighth and earn All-America status.
Fort Hays State had a total of eight women compete in the event, which also included
Piper Cadden and
Isabell Ortiz in the U23 Division, and
Josiah Ortiz,
Sophia Shultz,
Jamie Laswell, and
Amanda Jaeger in the U20 Division. Jaeger (65 kg) and Shultz (53 kg) each notched three wins, while Ortiz (50 kg) and Laswell (59 kg) each had two wins in the U20 Division. Cadden (59 kg) and Ortiz (53 kg) each had one win in the U23 Division.